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(General P.O.V)

"You have nerve, that much I'll admit. You stand in my presence and act so brazen. Tell me something Aden Strong, what makes you so brave?"

The walls of the hole around Aden smashed together a few meters above his head, cutting off his escape route and confining him inside the cavern.

"Especially when I can do that."

Aden looked up and blinked.

"What makes me so brazen? Easy. I got a big dick."

"Troll."

Chaos muttered through Aden's mind while laughing at the response.

"Huh?"

The voice was once again left speechless. Then came the anger.

"You think this is a game!? I have seen more than you can comprehend child! Billions of years old! I have seen the beginning of the universe and the end is not hidden from my sight! I have devoured over countless..."

"Hey, I think I found something."

Chaos informed Aden just as the Voice kept on with the tirade.

"Good, while he's too busy yapping his mouth, we can finally figure out what's the deal with this place."

Aden replied.

"The Ordium and Chaoum ores lining the chamber are designed to pull in energy, I'm thinking Geb's, through a sort of formation that is held together by a piece of...holy shit, Boss. You gotta see this."

Chaos' voice ended in a shocked tone.

Aden approximated the distance between the walls on either side of him and took a step to the left, shifting in his position.

"Right there."

Chaos informed him.

Aden crouched, rubbing away the sand using his palm to reveal a strange symbol that instantly made his mood plummet to the floor.

"Fuck. I don't need this right now."

Aden muttered pulling his fist back, intent to slam it down onto the symbol.

The Voice that had been vocal up until then paused.

"...hey, what do you think you're doing?! Hey! Stop that!"

He was too late. With one motion, Aden's fist plunged right through the stone symbol on the floor to reveal a...

Boom!

A massive explosion of demonic energy slammed onto him, lifting up his body and causing him to collide onto the ceiling above. Cracks run down the earth walls as Aden found himself momentarily immobilized by the red shade of energy that had emerged from the floor.

"I TOLD YOU TO FUCKING STOP! AND NOW MY PET WILL BREAK YOU."

The voice yelled.

The red shade coalesced into a huge black Gorilla with bubbling red energy cladding it's body. Aden recognized it as the god of the Jabari tribe, who had gone missing only a few minutes prior.

It had it's huge palm enclosed around Aden's Torso, pushing him towards the ceiling, roaring at his face with huge fangs and yellow animalistic eyes. Aden snorted.

A pressure wave erupted out, destroying its palm and the entirety of it's left hand before pushing it down towards the floor of the chamber. Darkness rose up in a spinning disc from the ground, passing through Hanuman's spine and splitting the Gorilla god into two parts. Both parts slammed to the ground with a sickening squelch. Red golden blood flowed out of the corpse.

The dark disc slowed down it's motion and turned into Equity, landing in Aden's waiting hand before he descended right in the middle of the separate pieces of the Gorilla god.

Red demonic energy washed out of Hanuman's corpse, dripping into the cracks on the floor. Then it rejoined with a yellowed piece of paper with the symbol of the Darkhold and cryptic spells that even Aden's prodigious mind struggled to understand.

"A single page of the Darkhold was enough to provide whoever that was, with a spell to possess a god. What if it was the entire book?"

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Chaos wondered grimly. Aden stayed silent as he used his fingers to grab at the page's edge. Immediately, red energy started to climb up his fingers, halting as Aden pushed back with his own power.

"So any ideas who's behind this? Off the top of my head, I'm thinking Chthon, Mephisto, Kaecilious if he's already with the masters of the..."

"It's none of them."

Aden muttered.

"You're right."

The same voice from before stated.

"He's still not dead?! Seriously who the fuck is this dude?"

Chaos ground out.

Aden clenched Equity as he stood up, the page of the Darkhold hanging off his right hand.

"Hahaha...none of them are worthy. None of them have the resolve or the power!"

The sound rang out through the entire room. Then the tone changed into something softer but no less menacing.

"It seems I underestimated you Aden Strong. I shall not do so again."

It promised before completely disappearing, leaving behind those ominous words.

"I don't like the sound of that."

Chaos spoke up.

Aden nodded in agreement. His divine sense: passive state was still enough to cover more than an entire Solar System. And out of nowhere, he could feel multiple power levels start falling from the sky, through transfer relay beams like the Bifrost or portals in outer space. All coming down to Earth. It was clear this was the Voice's doing.

"We need to get topside."

He told Chaos before waving a hand and storing Hanuman's corpse with the rest of the dead gods. Aden crouched and jumped. The soil making up the ceiling moved out of his way as he flew unimpeded towards the surface. He broke through what had turned out to become a sink hole and bore witness to what seemed to be the end of the world.

(Elsewhere)

On his Miami beach house, Tony was unceremoniously dragged off the two buxom blondes who had been flanking him on his bed by his best friend, Rhodey. The latter was annoyed at him for sleeping in. They needed to have an important discussion about a few military deals between Stark Industries and the army.

Rhodey stepped over a passed out barely dressed model while shaking his head.

"You're living too fast, Tony."

He scolded, handing his best friend a glass of water and an Ibuprofen pill.

"Thanks."

Tony nodded in gratitude before groaning and drowning the Ibuprofen with a half glass of whiskey.

Upon seeing the glare on Rhodey's face, he shrugged.

"Come on, you can't tell me you're surprised by that."

The billionaire playboy shot back, waving the whiskey glass.

Rhodey was about to reply when his attention was grabbed by something past the glass doors leading to the balcony of the beach house.

"Did you leave your security lights on?"

He asked a hangover Tony who stared at him with a befuddled look, before following the direction his eyes were looking.

"No..."

They both walked towards the balcony and stopped before a view that was not all that common in Miami.

"Ah... usually you have something to say about crazy shit like this."

Rhodey pointed out.

"Welcome to the 21st century, a time when Nerds will be cool...oh and Armageddon has apparently arrived."

Tony replied.

"That was bad. I take it back."

He added with a frown.

"Nope. No take backs. Man, but I wish I paid more attention at Church."

Rhodey responded with a shake of his head.

(Elsewhere)

The Royal Talon Fighter never made it more than a mile before they needed to stop.

"Why is the sky raining fire?"

Awinja, a Dora Milaje asked out loud when everyone was too busy gawking at the descending balls of flame.

"Hanuman's Wrath has come down from the heavens to strike all those who oppose him!" A Jabari warrior intoned, slamming his fist on his chest and howling. The rest of the Jabari warriors present followed suit.

The cabin of the ship was filled with shouts from grown men.

T'Challa stared at Okoye and a silent conversation seemed to happen between them in the span of a few seconds. Then the ground below them, a few meters ahead burst apart as something fast sped through the air, disappearing into the clouds above.

"Take us down."

T'Challa ordered.

(New York Sanctum)

On the roof of the old building, the Ancient One stood in place with all the masters present in the Kamar Taj Order of Sorcerers. Those they could spare at such short notice at least.

"Hold on Charles, this could get ugly before things calm down."

The Ancient One had her eyes closed as she telepathically communicated with Xavier.

A portal, this one green instead of the usual yellow, manifested a little to their side.

"Hold."

The Ancient One opened her eyes, cutting off the transmission. The command was meant for the sorcerers behind her just in case they got trigger happy and begun launching spells.

"They are allies."

"For now."

Unexpectedly, the voice did not come from the dozens of green clad men and women arriving from the green portal or as they were known, the druids.

Instead it appeared from another portal, this one completely red and taking up space to their right.

The owner of the voice was a baldheaded man wearing red robes that were matched by the 5 figures behind him.

"The Red Lotus."

Master Ming, a sorcerer stationed at the Hong Kong Sanctum spat out.

"Ah Ming, it seems you managed to nurse your leg back to working order."

A long haired tall Asian man jeered at him from the Bald headed man's side.

"No thanks to you and your crooks, Long Wei!"

Master Ming shouted back.

"Please, Master Ming" The Ancient One said over her shoulder,

"Now is not the time."

"Ancient One."

The leader of the newly arrived group, the Red Lotus bowed.

"Zaheer."

The Ancient One nodded back.

"Now that the pleasantries are out of the way,"

The leader of the Druids, a tall black woman dressed in a flowing green gown pointed towards the sky.

"How do we deal with this?"

"It's the descent of the gods." The Ancient One explained.

"All the Earthly Pantheons barring the Primordial gods who ascended past the physical realm, are here for one sole purpose." She raised a finger.

"To kill the greatest source of Mystical power known to all, The Avatar."

The shock was immense. She ignored it and continued,

"As to what we do? Nothing. Our task is to only mitigate the damage to the planet caused by the oncoming fallout. This fight is not one we can join in."

(Xavier Mansion)

"How bad is it Chuck?"

Wolverine asked as he and Storm arrived at Cerebro just in time to see Charles place down his helmet.

"Very bad. Lock down the school. No one goes out...and no one comes in."

The last part was delivered with a regretful sigh, showing how hard that decision had been.

Storm and Wolverine stared at each other in surprise before the latter turned to the Professor.

"Whatever you say Chuck."

"Let us protect the children."

Storm added, agreeing with the decision.

(Aden's P.O.V)

I broke through the ground and was exposed to an unexpected sight.

And bam!

It was like everything simply fell into place. All the small bits of information finally combined and revealed the whole picture. The whole truth.

"I know who's behind all this."

I told Chaos as thousands of gods fell from the sky towards the earth. All coming to face me. They had the same energy signature as the page of the Darkhold.

"Oh really? Who?"

Chaos asked out loud as I shifted into my normal form and twirled Equity.

"I'll tell you after we've dealt with this."

I answered, pointing my weapon at the brightest among the lights. It was covered with streaks of blue lightning.

"I wonder how this Zeus matches up with the one I know."